Kanye West Is Just Like Michelangelo Says Kanye West

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Last night, Kanye West visited Seth Meyers's brand-new late night show to chat with the host and drop a few classic Kanyeisms. Below are a few of the gems he shared with all of us:

On performing in his Margiela mask:

"I mean the mask is great. It's freeing… A place where you can express yourself to your audience, to everyone without being judged, without having to live up to whatever your name is supposed to represent, what it's supposed to mean, what it doesn't mean, just to feel like a new artist again."

"For me, I give you paintings, sonic paintings. I have synesthesia I can see sound in front of me. So when I want do fashion, I want to give you sculptures. So it's like Michelangelo, the church wanted him to paint, but he wanted to do sculptures. The difficult thing for me that everyone doesn't understand is that I just want to use marble and make sculptures, but due to the fact that I'm a celebrity and all these different things, they're like no you can't do this. You have to do this kind of line."

On why he's doing fashion instead of sticking to music:

"Its kind of the first of its kind, which is why there's been a lot of confusion as to why I want to do it, why I'm so frustrated, why it's like why doesn't he just do music, yada yada. Its like an overall creative expression."

On his shoes being too small:

"As you get really successful at one thing, you start to grow and you feel like you can do more things, and your shoe starts to get a little bit tight and you do everything you can to get a bigger shoe so you can walk further and run faster."

On paving the way for future generations:

"These are the walls that Michael Jackson broke down for you and Jay Z and Richard Simmons broke down for you, this is the end of it…I'm in the process of breaking down walls that people will understand 10 years from now, 20 years from now."

On his music being appropriate for his daughter:

"Artistic, intellectual, kid-friendly songs. You go to Europe and there's nudity on TV. It's all in the way you raise and have an understanding and have an appreciation for what you're looking at and what you're hearing and why you're hearing it."